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Date: 15 Oct 1995 11:27:36
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I am a graduating theatre student in Toronto, Canada, and I am currently
involved in a

production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Bertolt Brecht. Our
director, Sasha Lukac, is

from Sarajevo, and has set the entire play in your city. Rather than
portray the characters

as "peasants", we are playing the roles of young people in Sarajevo, and
how they are

dealing with the war. We are particulularly concerned with the perception
the West has of

your struggle, and how it has been falsely coloured by the western media,
especially CNN.



It would mean a great deal to my director and fellow actors to establish
communications

with people in Sarajevo through the Internet. We are committed to showing
our audiences what

you are REALLY experiencing, not what CNN falsely paints every night on
our TV screens, and

the opportunity of using your words in this play would be extremely powerful.

What do you think will happen after the war? How have old friendships with
"the enemy"

been destroyed by this war, in a city which was once so uniquely cosmopolitan?

What is you attitude to the West and CNN?



I hope to hear from someone soon.



Tiffany Knight.




From notes@igc5.igc.org Sun Oct 15 15:17:53 1995
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Date: 15 Oct 1995 11:34:01
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I am a graduating theatre student in Toronto, Canada, and I am currently
involved in a

production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Bertolt Brecht. Our
director, Sasha Lukac, is

from Sarajevo, and has set the entire play in your city. Rather than
portray the characters

as "peasants", we are playing the roles of young people in Sarajevo, and
how they are

dealing with the war. We are particulularly concerned with the perception
the West has of

your struggle, and how it has been falsely coloured by the western media,
especially CNN.



It would mean a great deal to my director and fellow actors to establish
communications

with people in Sarajevo through the Internet. We are committed to showing
our audiences what

you are REALLY experiencing, not what CNN falsely paints every night on
our TV screens, and

the opportunity of using your words in this play would be extremely powerful.

What do you think will happen after the war? How have old friendships with
"the enemy"

been destroyed by this war, in a city which was once so uniquely cosmopolitan?

What is you attitude to the West and CNN?



I hope to hear from someone soon.



Tiffany Knight.




From notes@igc5.igc.org Sun Oct 15 15:25:52 1995
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 10:13:12 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ivo Skoric 
Subject: HATE & WAR
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From: Ivo Skoric 

Yesterday I met a young woman from Vinkovci, Daniela. She is a
relative of my friend and

she came here a month ago to enroll college. Political science.
Daniela plans to become a

Croatian ambassador some day somewhere. Why are women so much more
ambitious than

men these days everywhere?

Over a few beers (not Heineken, rather cheap American brand) she
is answering my questions.

After she graduated high school in Vinkovci, she worked in the
Zagreb's Foreign Press Bureau

and briefly even taught English to other kids. Fluent in English,
she scored high on TOEFL.

And she is only 20.

She hates Serbs. She hates Muslims, too, with the curious
exception she makes for people

from Sarajevo, who are, she says, cool. She doesn't like
Slovenians, either. And for people

from Zagreb she thinks they are pretentious snobs (excluding me,
she says).

Then, this is all perfectly normal. Yugoslavia, in which my
generation made inter-ethnic

friendships and even inter-ethnic marriages, is for her generation
a vague childhood memory,

which they are taught by current teachers to remember with disdain
or, better, forget it all.

Her most important formative years she spent fighting the war:
watching her Serb neighbors

arming themselves and leaving their homes under clout of night to
join chetnik military units

or to travel to Belgrade, watching constant propaganda on TV and
watching her three years

older brother returning from the front-lines wounded three times -
each time more damaged.

He is now 80% disabled veteran living in Germany spitting bile
against Tudjman (who

allegedly treats his veterans, as the U.S. treated their Vietnam
veterans). He is 23. They both

still have to live to meet a Serb who does not hate Croats, if
they are to question their own

hate.

With tragic death of rock band Ekaterina Velika lead vocalist
Milan, died the only thing she

ever deemed positive that came out of Belgrade. She likes rock and
roll. Vinkovci is home of

the best Croatian and probably the best East-European hard-core
and grind-core scene. They

know how to rock. Satan Panonski, aka Ivica Culjak, aka Kecer II
was known for his s/m

performances in which he would slash deep in his flesh and let his
blood all over the stage

while screaming and whatever else a hard-core punk does. Mohawked
Satan joined Croatian

forces at the onset of the war. He was a good fighter, little
crazy, tough. His favorite method

of torturing his Serb captives was to hurt himself and say: "You
see what I am able to do to

myself. Imagine what would I do to you..." That worked just fine,
but the "International

Community" was not pleased. So, Satan mysteriously died. Legends
among Vinkovci's youth

(including Daniela) say that Croatian government killed him,
because he became a human

rights embarrassment and too uncontrollable.

Daniela's brother got an apartment and a job in Germany as a
Croatian war veteran - he

couldn't get that in Croatia. As my friend from Sarajevo, Adnan,
spent half a year in Zagreb,

where he couldn't get a job as a "foreigner", and where he was
afraid to speak in public, so

not to be recognized for his accent. Now he is in New York, where
he has a job and nobody

treats him as a foreigner. I guess, my fellow citizens of Zagreb
still have to learn how to

behave urban, instead of behaving like pretentious snobs.

How many kids like Daniela are out there? Brought up to hate and
war on all sides?! Does

anybody do anything to show them that there are other things in
life worth living besides The

Hate?

ivo